If there’s one good thing that comes out of controversy, it’s that it usually brings changes. The National Football League could use a good dose of that after an officiating disaster during both conference championship games last Sunday. There were a few minor bad calls, but ...
The New England Patriots are in the Super Bowl again. That’s three straight appearances and four of the last five. Now this Super Bowl very well could have been the New Orleans Saints vs. the Kansas City Chiefs if not for some questionable calls in both NFC and AFC Championship ...
Hockey is a big thing in Michigan — that’s common knowledge. Detroit markets itself as Hockeytown, there are seven successful NCAA Division I hockey programs in the state that are popular in their communities and even Marquette was dubbed Kraft Hockeyville USA in 2016. However, ...
It’s been hard to get a sense of who’s going to win in the NFL playoffs so far, and it doesn’t seem a whole lot easier this weekend, either. Which is just the way it should be. A few years ago when the New England Patriots looked like an unstoppable force, what was the purpose of watching any of their games before they reached the Super Bowl? Just to see how Bill Belichick and Tom Brady would dismantle some hapless AFC opponent? Naw, this is much better now, even as a prognosticator of games, only because I have pretty low expectations about my picks. So let’s dive ...
Kickers don’t get any respect. Seriously, name any other position in the four major sports that gets forgotten and ridiculed more than place-kickers. If they’re effective, people just say they’re doing their jobs. If they win a game, they’re praised for maybe 24 hours, then ...
Let’s just say the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs was a cruel mistress, hopefully forgiving any possible misogynistic overtones that might have. Saturday’s games, which I felt less sure about, went just the way I thought and hoped they would, only to watch my predictions crash and ...
